PARTITION BY CENSUS

We,
the undersigned, defending the right of Iraq to independence,
sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity, rejecting the attempts
of Iraqi puppets promoted by the US occupation to trade the national
rights of Iraqis and to institutionalise via census the criminal
demographic engineering they have pursued by force, declare that:

From the first day of
the US-UK occupation of Iraq, the occupation began to undertake a
series of measures, directly or through its local allies, to destroy
Iraq as a state and a nation and to partition it along ethnic and
sectarian lines.

Today, the puppet government of the occupation and its Kurdish
partners are trying to hold a population census in Kirkuk province
whose aim is to give a permanent legal character to the criminal
social engineering, ethnic cleansing and demographic changes that
have been implemented under occupation.[1] This could unleash a full
blown civil war across Iraq, and potentially lead to its partition
and a consequent regional war.

In addition to the death of more than one million Iraqis, the ethnic
cleansing and other means pursued by the United States, United
Kingdom and their allies in order to implement the process of
partitioning Iraq, in its cities and regions, have caused the forced
migration of 2.5 million Iraqis out of Iraq and the forced
displacement of 2.5 million others from their homes inside Iraq.

The ethnic cleansing suffered by the population in the provinces of
Mosul, Diyala, Salahuddin and the Baghdad area, and most notably in
Kirkuk and the so-called "disputed areas" — where the population is
forced by various means, including systematic assassinations,
bombing civilians, collective punishment, transfer, displacement,
deportation and other crimes against humanity, to migrate only to be
replaced by people from other provinces or even from outside Iraq —
is a clear crime of destruction and part of the intended partition
of Iraq.

The United States, the United Kingdom and their allies waged an
illegal war of aggression against Iraq and occupied its territory.
This war in itself is a crime punishable under international law.
International law, in particular The Hague Regulations of 1907, the
Geneva Conventions and additional protocols, and the Genocide
Convention, explicitly prohibits occupying powers from instituting
changes aimed at permanently altering the foundational structures of
occupied territories, including the judiciary, economy, political
institutions and social fabric.[2]

International law considers the systematic transfer, deportation or
displacement of population a crime against humanity.[3] Residents of
affected areas, the Iraqi national forces, the displaced, and the
majority of the people of Iraq declare this census null and void. It
has no binding legal consequences and cannot and should not be used
to support or justify the intended partition of Iraq.

We demand that no census be conducted before the free return of all
Iraqi refugees. We demand that the question of ethnicity not be used
to instigate the partition of Iraq and that it be removed from any
census, now and in the future. We declare as fraudulent the
justification under occupation of a census on the basis of long term
planning in the context of a temporary and unstable demographic
situation.

We demand that the United Nations and the Arab League and all
governments, personalities, organisations and institutions support
the demands of the people of Iraq by not recognising the results of
this census, and by not assisting in conducting it. This census is
designed to reward criminals for their crimes at the expense of
their victims.

Dr. Ian Douglas, coordinator of the International Initiative
to Prosecute US Genocide in Iraq and member of the Executive
Committee of the BRussells
TribunalAbdul Ilah Albayaty, Iraqi political analyst and member of
the Executive Committee of the BRussells
TribunalHana Al Bayaty, member of the Executive Committee of the BRussells
Tribunal and the International Initiative to Prosecute US Genocide
in IraqDirk Adriaensens, member of the Executive Committee of the BRussells
TribunalProf. Em. François Houtart,
Participant in the Bertrand Russell War Crimes Tribunal on US
Crimes in Vietnam in 1967, Director of the Tricontinental Center (Cetri),
spiritual father and member of the International Committee of the
World Social Forum of Porto Alegre, Executive Secretary of the
Alternative World Forum, President of the International League for
Rights and Liberation of People, Honorary President of the BRussells
Tribunal and senior advisor to the President of the United Nations
General Assembly Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, recipient of the 2009
UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and
Non-Violence

[1] Forced displacement and the construction of walled-in districts
and their associated regimes, by contributing to demographic changes
in Iraq, contravene international humanitarian law, including
Article 49, paragraphs 1 and 5, of The Fourth Geneva Convention
Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in the Time of War,
1949, and as such constitute war crimes.
[2] Articles 43 and 55 of The Hague IV Regulations on Laws and
Customs of War on Land, 1907 (HR); Articles 54 and 64 of The Fourth
Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in
the Time of War, 1949. Occupying powers are obliged to manage the
resources of the occupied territory under the law of usufruct only.
This means that while they may use national resources as necessary
to the upkeep of the wellbeing of the population in the occupied
territory (Fourth Geneva Convention, Article 64) they cannot profit
from the use of such resources or award themselves partial or whole
ownership of such resources. The US remains a belligerent occupier
of Iraq.
[3] Article 7 (1) (d) of the Elements of Crimes of the International
Criminal Court.

ENDORSED BY

Rev. Miguel d'Escoto-Brockmann

Nicaragua

former Minister for Foreign Affairs and Catholic priest,
Senior Adviser on Foreign Affairs, with the rank of
Minister, to President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, President of
the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly

Denis Halliday

Ireland

Former UN Assistant Secretary General & United Nations
Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq 1997-98, recipient of the
2003 Gandhi International Peace Award

Niloufer Bhagwat

India

Vice President of Indian Lawyers Association

Matthias Chang

Malaysia

Trustee of The Kuala Lumpur Foundation To Criminalise War

Dr. Curtis F.J. Doebbler

USA

International Human Rights Lawyer

Karen Parker

USA

Attorney, Association of Humanitarian Lawyers, partners of
the BRussells Tribunal

Salah Omar Al Ali

Iraq

ex iraqi minister/ex Iraq's ambassador to UN

Abdulkarim Hani

Iraq

Former Health minister

Ahmed Manai

Tunesia

Former expert with the UN, President of the Tunisian
Institute of International Relations - Tunesia

Naji Haraj

Iraq

Former diplomat, Human Rights Advocate

Sabah Al Mukhtar

Iraq/UK

President of the Arab Lawyers Association

Eduardo Galeano

Uruguay

Essayist, journalist, historian, and activist

Jan Myrdal

Sweden

Writer

Prof. Michel Chossudovsky

Canada

Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG)

Dr Zulaiha Ismail

Iraq/Malaysia

Perdana Global Peace Organisation

Dr Souad Al Azzawi

Iraq

Researcher on the use of DU in Iraq, Asst. Prof. Env. Eng -
University of Baghdad

former Minister for Foreign Affairs and Catholic priest,
Senior Adviser on Foreign Affairs, with the rank of
Minister, to President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, President of
the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly

Denis Halliday

Ireland

Former UN Assistant Secretary General & United Nations
Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq 1997-98, recipient of the
2003 Gandhi International Peace Award

Niloufer Bhagwat

India

Vice President of Indian Lawyers Association

Matthias Chang

Malaysia

Trustee of The Kuala Lumpur Foundation To Criminalise War

Dr. Curtis F.J. Doebbler

USA

International Human Rights Lawyer

Karen Parker

USA

Attorney, Association of Humanitarian Lawyers, partners of
the BRussells Tribunal

Salah Omar Al Ali

Iraq

ex iraqi minister/ex Iraq's ambassador to UN

Abdulkarim Hani

Iraq

Former Health minister

Ahmed Manai

Tunesia

Former expert with the UN, President of the Tunisian
Institute of International Relations - Tunesia

Naji Haraj

Iraq

Former diplomat, Human Rights Advocate

Sabah Al Mukhtar

Iraq/UK

President of the Arab Lawyers Association

Eduardo Galeano

Uruguay

Essayist, journalist, historian, and activist

Jan Myrdal

Sweden

Writer

Prof. Michel Chossudovsky

Canada

Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG)

Dr Zulaiha Ismail

Iraq/Malaysia

Perdana Global Peace Organisation

Dr Souad Al Azzawi

Iraq

Researcher on the use of DU in Iraq, Asst. Prof. Env. Eng -
University of Baghdad

Dr. Ian Douglas, coordinator of the International Initiative
to Prosecute US Genocide in Iraq and member of the Executive
Committee of the BRussells
TribunalAbdul Ilah Albayaty, Iraqi political analyst and member of
the Executive Committee of the BRussells
TribunalHana Al Bayaty, member of the Executive Committee of the BRussells
Tribunal and the International Initiative to Prosecute US Genocide
in IraqDirk Adriaensens, member of the Executive Committee of the BRussells
TribunalProf. Em. François Houtart,
Participant in the Bertrand Russell War Crimes Tribunal on US
Crimes in Vietnam in 1967, Director of the Tricontinental Center (Cetri),
spiritual father and member of the International Committee of the
World Social Forum of Porto Alegre, Executive Secretary of the
Alternative World Forum, President of the International League for
Rights and Liberation of People, Honorary President of the BRussells
Tribunal and senior advisor to the President of the United Nations
General Assembly Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, recipient of the 2009
UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and
Non-Violence

[1] Forced displacement and the construction of walled-in districts
and their associated regimes, by contributing to demographic changes
in Iraq, contravene international humanitarian law, including
Article 49, paragraphs 1 and 5, of The Fourth Geneva Convention
Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in the Time of War,
1949, and as such constitute war crimes.
[2] Articles 43 and 55 of The Hague IV Regulations on Laws and
Customs of War on Land, 1907 (HR); Articles 54 and 64 of The Fourth
Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in
the Time of War, 1949. Occupying powers are obliged to manage the
resources of the occupied territory under the law of usufruct only.
This means that while they may use national resources as necessary
to the upkeep of the wellbeing of the population in the occupied
territory (Fourth Geneva Convention, Article 64) they cannot profit
from the use of such resources or award themselves partial or whole
ownership of such resources. The US remains a belligerent occupier
of Iraq.
[3] Article 7 (1) (d) of the Elements of Crimes of the International
Criminal Court.

ENDORSED BY

Rev. Miguel d'Escoto-Brockmann

Nicaragua

former Minister for Foreign Affairs and Catholic priest,
Senior Adviser on Foreign Affairs, with the rank of
Minister, to President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, President of
the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly

Denis Halliday

Ireland

Former UN Assistant Secretary General & United Nations
Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq 1997-98, recipient of the
2003 Gandhi International Peace Award

Niloufer Bhagwat

India

Vice President of Indian Lawyers Association

Matthias Chang

Malaysia

Trustee of The Kuala Lumpur Foundation To Criminalise War

Dr. Curtis F.J. Doebbler

USA

International Human Rights Lawyer

Karen Parker

USA

Attorney, Association of Humanitarian Lawyers, partners of
the BRussells Tribunal

Salah Omar Al Ali

Iraq

ex iraqi minister/ex Iraq's ambassador to UN

Abdulkarim Hani

Iraq

Former Health minister

Ahmed Manai

Tunesia

Former expert with the UN, President of the Tunisian
Institute of International Relations - Tunesia

Naji Haraj

Iraq

Former diplomat, Human Rights Advocate

Sabah Al Mukhtar

Iraq/UK

President of the Arab Lawyers Association

Eduardo Galeano

Uruguay

Essayist, journalist, historian, and activist

Jan Myrdal

Sweden

Writer

Prof. Michel Chossudovsky

Canada

Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG)

Dr Zulaiha Ismail

Iraq/Malaysia

Perdana Global Peace Organisation

Dr Souad Al Azzawi

Iraq

Researcher on the use of DU in Iraq, Asst. Prof. Env. Eng -
University of Baghdad